Summary
AI, data science and product leader with a scientist's training, a founder's P&L experience and an operator's remit. Accountable for a 100+ person organization, with nine direct reports, of managers and teams across the US and India that builds digital twins and agentic AI for a manufacturing platform scoped to 150+ facilities, after strategy and capital-allocation work in a $15B segment and enterprise GenAI and supply-chain programs over $20B of spend. MIT PhD in machine learning (two Nature Chemistry papers) and MIT Sloan MBA. Still builds hands-on, in the open.
Experience
Caterpillar Inc.
- Accountable for a 100+ person organization as a leader of leaders, with nine direct reports: managers of data scientists, AI/GenAI engineers, simulation developers and product managers across the US and India.
- Own the AI and product roadmap for the Modern Manufacturing digital platform: predictive maintenance, inventory, dynamic scheduling, connected assets and operational metrics.
- With the team, architected a conversational assistant over a 3D digital twin on CUDA-accelerated NVIDIA AI Factory, Omniverse and NeMo agents; piloted across four US and UK plants.
- Two invention disclosures: hierarchical clustering for predictive maintenance in low-data regimes, and hybrid RAG for supply chain.
Caterpillar Resource Industries ($15B segment)
- Ran strategy for the segment as chief of staff to the senior vice president.
- Led the enterprise strategy workstream for sustainable mining, reporting into the Group President's office.
- Built the TAM/SAM framework with AI-driven adoption modelling across diesel, electric and hybrid propulsion.
- Informed M&A and venture decisions in autonomy and digital mine software; prepared board-level and Investor Day material.
Caterpillar Inc.
- Architected an OEM-agnostic data platform linking 10+ subsystems: battery trucks, fast chargers, energy storage, fleet and energy management.
- Negotiated interoperability and encryption protocols with OEM partners, enabling commercial data services.
- Shipped Early Learner dashboards with agentic workflows and natural-language query for the top five global miners.
Caterpillar Inc.
- Co-led the enterprise supply resiliency digital thread: scenario planning and risk across 1.5M parts, 7,000+ suppliers and $20B of annual spend.
- Designed ChatDocs, a GenAI platform (LLMs, hybrid RAG, fine-tuning) that extracts terms from contracts, quality certificates and risk reports.
- Led 12 Purdue Data Mine students building predictive risk analytics over 110+ datasets for 180 countries.
Amgen · MIT LGO
- Built graph neural networks that predict reaction impurities in small-molecule drug synthesis, and an impurity propagation framework across multi-step routes.
- Adapted inverse structure elucidation from mass spec and NMR, cutting unknown-compound identification from weeks to hours.
- Presented at NeurIPS 2022 (AI for Accelerated Materials Design workshop) within four months; became my MIT Sloan thesis.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Advised by Prof. Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli. Thesis: Designing Macromolecules Using Machine Learning and Simulations.
- Closed AI → synthesis → experiment loops with 30+ researchers across five labs, raising experimental throughput 10x.
- Open-sourced GLAMOUR and Peptimizer; helped secure $2.27M in grants; mentored nine students.
- TEDxBoston speaker on how AI can make rare diseases rarer.
Google Research
- Built ML models for CRISPRi guide RNA design across all 20,000 human genes, beating the prior state of the art by 20%+.
- Co-developed tooling for automated model building, hyperparameter tuning, architecture search and feature attribution.
MatSci AI
- Scaled from two founders to a 30-person team across the US and India, with full P&L ownership.
- Ran the sales cycle end to end and built the customer success function.
- Flagship RPA/ML product automated customer-inquiry processing for an oil and gas pipeline client.
IIT Roorkee and beyond
- Institute Gold Medal (rank 1 of 110); finished a four-year degree in three.
- SN Bose Scholar at Harvard (cancer immunotherapy) and OIST fellow (computational genomics).
- Quantitative researcher at EIS Global, Singapore: 20%+ lift in high-frequency trading models.
- Technical Executive at UIDAI (Aadhaar), delivering $3M analytics programs and privacy policy analysis.
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Advisor: Prof. Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli
MIT Sloan School of Management · Full fellowship
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Certifications
- Certified Supply Chain Professional (ASCM)
- CFA Program Level I
- CMA Part 1 (IMA)
- AI Leadership: Strategy, Governance and Agentic Systems (Harvard Data Science Review)
- NVIDIA: Observable, Scalable Multi-Agent Workflows
Recognition & speaking
- 2026 · MIT LGO Alumni Conference. Panelist on the leadership playbook for the AI era.
- 2026 · In Production Podcast. Guest, on process debt and why industrial AI stalls.
- 2026 · CES 2026, NVIDIA booth. Presented Caterpillar's manufacturing digital platform built on Omniverse.
- 2025 · NVIDIA GTC Washington DC. Digital-twin work featured in the keynote.
- 2025 · Chairman's Enterprise Excellence Award. One project selected across Caterpillar, for supply resiliency.
- 2023 · Caterpillar CEO Award. Top 1% of 120K+ employees, for GenAI in supply chain.
- 2023 · TEDxBoston. How AI can make rare diseases rarer.
- 2017 · Institute Gold Medal, IIT Roorkee. Rank 1 of 110.
Service
- MIT LGO Alumni Board, Social and Networking Committee (2024 – now)
- Reviewer, NeurIPS and ICML workshops on AI for science (2020 – now)
- Languages: English, Hindi, Odia (native); Bengali (elementary)